Pregnancy 'Hot Spot'

Santa Rosa Press Democrat ^ | March 20, 2005 | MARTIN ESPINOZA

[freebilly]

Immigration and poverty are critical factors contributing to Roseland becoming a teen birth "hot spot," according to health officials.

Over the past twenty years that area went from being 10% Hispanic to about 75% Hispanic.

[SpyGuy]

Over the past twenty years that area went from being 10% Hispanic to about 75% Hispanic.

Yup, and how many are illegals or the offspring of illegals? I bet many of those teen pregnancies are new anchor babies (or second generation anchor babies).

[steenkeenbadges]

Skyrocketing immigrant pregnancies will create some major new constituencies in the future. Unfortunately, if Anglos continue aborting their babies at the present rate, and having later and smaller families, there's no way they'll retain a majority.

Hispanics tend to welcome their babies and enjoy having large families. If they end up as the major population component, who will Anglos have to blame for it? (I'm Anglo, so no flaming please.)

[ClintonBeGone]

Gonzalez-Mendez, who grew up in Mexico City, says many Latina teens, especially recent immigrants, are Catholics and adhere to the church's opposition to abortion.

I'm always puzzled at why they don't adhere as strongly to the prohibition on premarital sex.

[ClintonBeGone]

Yup, and how many are illegals or the offspring of illegals? I bet many of those teen pregnancies are new anchor babies (or second generation anchor babies).

The article says absolutely nothing about illegal immigration. Why is it necessary to assume every article about someone from Mexico is some conspiracy that involves illegal immigration??

[heleny]

I bet many of those teen pregnancies are new anchor babies

If so (that many unmarried teen mothers are not legal residents), perhaps the unmarried teen mothers want to give birth to anchor babies.

Rosa Arias, 17, the mother of two children, became pregnant with her first child, Victor, when she was 12 years old

How would prescribing contraceptives at the high school help someone like Miss Arias? She would have still been in elementary school or junior high school when she conceived her first child.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

And while the rate for white teens in the area is lower, 55 births per 1,000 teens, it is still nearly four times greater than in the rest of Sonoma County.

Just want to reiterate that this is not purely a Hispanic issue. But I can't figure out why the Anglo kids also have a high pregnancy rate, unless it is peer pressure or some such. I do find this frightening, though, since I live very close to this area! I regularly pass Elsie Allen on my way to the grocery store.

[heleny]

Maybe some of the unmarried teenage mothers are white and also Hispanic?

[Clemenza]

Over the past twenty years that area went from being 10% Hispanic to about 75% Hispanic.

In tandem with the growth of the Wine industry over the same period. I gather these are the offspring of the grape pickers.

[ECM]

I'm always puzzled at why they don't adhere as strongly to the prohibition on premarital sex.

Probably, in part, because pre-marital sex isn't a mortal sin.

[oceanperch]

Agree

[oceanperch]

Also who is responsible for having sex with a pre teen child?

[peyton randolph]

Unfortunately, if Anglos continue aborting their babies at the present rate, and having later and smaller families, there's no way they'll retain a majority.

The other interesting stat is that 4/10 of all black pregnancies are aborted. Doing the math, is it any wonder that the Democrats have aborted themselves out of winning many elections in recent years?

[oceanperch]

Planned Parenthood is not acomplishing their goal in educating young sexually active girls. (sarcasm/kinda)

[heleny]

Also who is responsible for having sex with a pre teen child?

Unfortunately, either she was too immature to know what she was doing, or she was victimized by someone. No mention of the father(s) is made in the article, so who knows if he/they were prosecuted.

[Atchafalaya]

LOL!

[Flyer]

I'm always puzzled at why they don't adhere as strongly to the prohibition on premarital sex.

That was going to be my post, too.

So it's okay for them to be a Catholic and a slut as long as they don't have an abortion?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

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